mknelson

JWSC said:

I suppose everyone who takes part in these COVID-19 tracking solutions feels good about this work. And I’m sure it’s good work. But getting it deployed to the masses, many of whom will not voluntarily submit to tracking, is just too little and too late.

It may be a prepackaged solution for the next pandemic though.

Polls have shown a wide range of interest. The US may be right out as you suggest, other (hello from Canada) countries seem to have a better understanding/less politicization  of the benefits of contact tracing (it's not tracking).

Having said that, I have a few co-workers who had a knee jerk reaction when they saw the API in the iOS update last month. They clearly didn't understand the methodology or privacy protections built in to the system.

I think there is some confusion both in the way the article is written and the use of the term SIM card.

A SIM card is a single use item. It can be activated to a user account, but cannot be recycled for a different user.

The phone number is the problem.

The phone number was attached to an AppleID.

The phone number was reassigned to a different person.

The phone number was not removed from the AppleID so some messages are going to the wrong person.

The same problem can happen with SMS if you keep sending to an old texting thread…

badmonk said:
Thanks for summarizing it and that is how I read it too, so why isn’t User 1 more culpable than Apple for not updating his account?

Because Apple hasn't made much of an effort to highlight the issue if you change to a new phone number. iCloud will ask if you want to associate the new number, but I have never seen it prompt with "what about the old number?"

Peza said:

And what about those people who bought new iPhones because Apple told them their was absolutely nothing wrong with their batteries according to Apple diagnostics software.. Apple has got off incredibly lightly so far for its criminal act here, and yes it was a criminal act in some cases, like telling people to buy a new iPhone because their software stated the battery was fine, and let’s not forgot it wasn’t till Apple was caught red handed it was deliberately slowing phones down before they admitted it.. guilt all over them. Personally I’d have slapped Apple with a few billion dollars in fines and placed them under strict audits for 2 years to check they were not misdirecting consumers.

What are you talking about? Apple told people to buy a new iPhone?

I have a friend who experienced the random shutdowns with her iPhone about 9 months before the software update with the "secret fix". Nobody ever told her to buy a new phone. I ran diagnostics and we could see her battery was testing fine during the AppleCare period, but was shutting off with the batter in the 20-40% full range. The fix was a welcome extension to the life of her phone until Apple did the battery replacement program.

The Airplay/Apple music functionality is pretty amazing.

I regularly use my phone to set Airplay on the downstairs AppleTV to stream music to my Airport Express AirPlay connected speakers in my bedroom (need a cheap Airplay hub to replace the discontinued Airport Express, please!)

Its funny how you can select Airplay on your phone and continue playing an album you started on your Phone on the AppleTV, but I don't think the reverse works.

mld53a said:

Why can’t the app control volume like the physical remote can? That is an annoying oversight. 

Because the remote has an infrared transmitter and your phone doesn't?

It would be able to do it by changing the digital audio the box is sending, but that's about it. It wouldn't be able to change the actual volume of your speakers.